To all Arizonans: get ready to start seeing new clean energy projects and employment opportunities – The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) will invest $27 billion to reduce energy costs and create clean energy jobs! We recognize that the benefits available through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are limited by Read more…
Arizona Interfaith Power & Light formed in 2009 to shine a light on the causes and solutions for the climate crisis, and to help prepare people for the changes that would be required to combat it. But we always knew that personal choices were only a part of the solution. Read more…
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5ad65b674bad54bad8d723526/images/9372524c-bd6f-448e-8863-de51f881f059.png Arizona Interfaith Power & Light is joining with Solar United Neighbors to help those who are considering “going solar.” The East Valley Solar Co-op is supported by Solar United Neighbors, a nonprofit that has helped more than 3,900 homeowners go solar nationwide. If you’re interested in going solar, this is the perfect Read more…
It’s not too late to take action to support climate solutions by hosting a FREE screening of Paris To Pittsburgh today! Interfaith Power & Light is partnering with Bloomberg and Radical Media to bring this FREE limited time offering to you. Get started here. It’s important that people of faith share this film Read more…
PARIS PLEDGEInterfaith Power & Light is encouraging congregations to join the effort to care for Creation and move our country to clean, renewable energy by signing the Paris Pledge, committing to reduce their carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2050. Nearly 350 congregations have already Read more…
WRITE A LETTER…SPEAK OUT FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY We urge you to join us in advocating for renewable energy and energy efficacy. Please consider adapting the letter below. You can make it your own. Email the letter todoug.bland@azipl.org by July 27th, before the July 30thhearing at the Arizona Corporation Commission, and we Read more…
Your Voice is Needed – Important Electric Vehicle Vote Coming Up! Our state’s utility commission, known as the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), is currently considering a new electric vehicle (https://docket.images.azcc.gov/0000196918.pdf ) (EV) policy. The proposed policy opens the door for investment in EV infrastructure and programs. Unfortunately, Arizona is lagging behind neighboring Read more…
Jolene Bowers, a scientist with TGen from Flagstaff, and I spoke at Orme School, a boarding school in Mayer, last month. A wonderful event put on by Slow Food Prescott and the Orme School dining director. You know the facts: the food system is one of the largest contributors to Read more…
“You Think You Can Change the Climate?” I was not prepared when an acquaintance at a Super Bowl party asked this question in response to my sharing that I am working on the climate crisis. It seemed a long time before my response, “yes I do.” That got me thinking. Read more…
Last Thursday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, released a resolution to Congress and a broad outline of a vision for a Green New Deal, a plan to battle climate change as well as economic injustice. It sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across Read more…